I came across a really old Dell Inspiron with about 1gb of ram, and a slow sh;tty processor that hasn't been used in 4+ years... so I booted it up with the intention of trying to install a linux OS.

I downloaded an lubuntu iso to install, however my DUMB ASS tried to reformat the HD before just running the lubuntu iso from a bootable flash drive (16gb). The laptop was having so much trouble, I just want to completely wipe everything on there- but now when I try to turn it on, one of two things happen:

1)

Quote:

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:\system3ntoskrnl.exe
Please re-install a copy of the above file.

So I went into the BIOS settings and moved USB Drive to position 1 to boot from, then disc as #2, and then internal HDD to #3.

If I put the flash drive with the lbuntu iso file in there, it says:
2)

Quote:

BOOTMGR is missing
Press any key to restart

So right now all I can get is a black screen with DOS style white text. Does anyone know how to get around these things?